Bradley Jason Pantajo is an emerging filmmaker and theatre artist from the Philippines. He is a recent graduate of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, where he earned a degree in Bachelor of Performing Arts. Mostly creating short films, he has garnered a decent amount of recognition and experience in this field. His first short film, Pamana ni Lola, won the Best Short Film Award at the Metro Manila Film Festival 2019. His next short film, Love in the Ungodly Hour, received the Best Director and Audience Choice Award at the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino 4: Sine Kabataan category. The film served as his coming-out letter to the world. He is now an alumnus of FULL CIRCLE LAB, where he developed the expanded version of Love in the Ungodly Hour. In addition to filmmaking, he actively participates in film labs and story fellowship programs both locally and internationally. Recently, he joined INDIEGENIUS, an initiative of NETFLIX and iACADEMY—a project-based lab focused on training the next generation of regional filmmakers. Out of 300 submissions, he was selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists, undergoing a rigorous month-long workshop led by some of the most sought-after film professionals in the Philippines. He also completed a remote story fellowship with BEBESEA and New Naratif, an independent media company based in Indonesia. Open to all members of migrant communities in and from Southeast and East Asia, the program selected him as one of seven story fellows—tasked with producing a film and other media-based outputs out of nearly 100 applicants. His most recent project in development, On Potok na Eyenede, is an Ethnofiction film about the indigenous Dumagat-Remontado community in his hometown and their struggle against extractive industries threatening their ancestral land. The project has been developed under Active Vista and Dakila’s Climate Story Lab, and was a recipient of the CCCL Film Grants in Thailand. To further hone his skills in socially impactful storytelling, he also attended the DocsConnect Taskovski Training Workshop, organized by the London-based world sales and production company Taskovski Films LTD and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. He is continually collaborating with YATU Film Productions, a regional production company founded by award-winning Filipino filmmaker Carlo Enciso Catu, to support emerging regional filmmakers in telling their diverse stories—while helping pave a kinder world for artists and creatives.